Questions tagged [europe]
For questions about claims based in Europe, or limited to Europe.
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Were more than 1100 industrial firms wiped out under the directions of Veselin Vukotić?
This documentary by Boris Malagurski claims that than 1100 industrial firms were wiped out from January 1989 to September 1990 under the lead of the US-supported Yugoslavian minister of privatisation ...
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Do the European regulations on AI have a clause saying that they do not apply to military use?
Geoffrey Hinton says in the podcast Godfather of AI: I Tried to Warn Them, But We’ve Already Lost Control! Geoffrey Hinton that:
In particular the European regulations have a clause in them that say ...
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Is the USA's military the only force that can defend against attacks involving cruise missiles & drones?
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In the now infamous leaked group text chat, the USA National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz, claimed:
Whether we pull the plug or not today European navies do not have the capability to ...
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Did Hamas dig up EU-funded water pipes and turn them into rockets?
A recurring narrative/allegation in debates about the current Hamas/Israel conflict is that Hamas has dug up EU steel pipes and turned them into Qassam rockets. The main sources for this appear to be ...
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Do EU sanctions prevent Russian visitors from bringing their smartphones/toothpaste with them into the EU?
This morning a Russian media company RBC reported that (vaguely translated from Russian) "EU prohibited Russians to enter the EU with personal cars, smartphones and shampoo". A similar story ...
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Did a yacht owned by a Polish company with Ukrainian owners travel from Rostock to Christiansø on September 6-7, 2022?
A number of mainstream German newspapers claimed on March 7 that a likely Ukrainian commando travelling on false passports boarded a yacht registered to a Polish company (but ultimately owned by ...
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Has there been a 1101% increase in excess deaths among children aged 0-14 across Europe in 2022?
According to the blogger Peter Sweden:
If we take a look at the excess deaths among children aged 0-14 across Europe, there has been a HORRIFYING 1101% increase in excess deaths so far this year ...
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Would a meltdown/explosion at Zaporizhia mean the "evacuation" of Europe?
According to the Guardian, Zelenskiy said (on the fighting at Zaporizhia nuclear plant):
“If there will be an explosion, it will be the end to all of us: the
end of Europe, the evacuation of Europe,”
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Is melatonin used as a contraceptive in Europe?
On Episode 515 of the Wellness Mama podcast, Dr. Michael J. Breus made the statement that melatonin is used for birth control in Europe:
Melatonin in Europe is used as a contraceptive. Let me say ...
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(To what extent) was the Lithuanian fence on the border with Russia (Kaliningrad) "funded by NATO" (or the EU)?
Wikipedia has claimed NATO funding for this fence for some years, e.g. today it says:
In early 2017, with increasing military activity and political tensions in the region, the Lithuanian government ...
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Did "the" (or a) European Court declare that Covid-19 PCR tests are "not fit for purpose"?
In a long video denying the validity of Covid-19 PCR tests, it's stated at one point (15:17), without much context that
the European court declaring that Covid-19 tests are "not fit for purpose&...
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Are all Oreo-cookie ingredients listed in accordance with EU ingredient labelling regulations?
I have read in several places about the claim that Oreo cookies may be using titanium dioxide in their preparation. This additive, although widely used, has been recently under the suspicion of ...
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Was the UK the third poorest member of the EU despite being the second biggest net contributor in 1979?
This video on YouTube of Margaret Thatcher at the EU Dublin Council on the 29th of November 1979 seems to suggest that the UK was the second biggest net contributor to the EU and also the third ...
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Is Russia spreading fake news about some countries' management of COVID-19?
According to a Financial Times article, an EU report warns about the diffusion of fake news by Russian media, in an attempt to discredit involved governments and aggravate the ongoing crisis.
Can ...
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Was a "large number" of new COVID-19 clusters in the United States seeded by travellers from Europe?
It has been reported in relation to the recent US travel ban on the EU's 26-country Schengen area that
The President justified the ban by saying the EU had failed to take the same precautions as the ...
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Was the EU created or supported by Nazis? [closed]
My dad has started preaching from this self published book (Indisputable Evidence Proving the EU Was Created by Nazis, by Jack King) which claims the European Union was both wanted and created by ...
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Are bars in Italy using pasta as straws?
It’s being reported in a lot of places that bars in Italy are using pasta as straws: 1 ,2, 3, 4. They all cite the same source of a Reddit post here, with a picture of one of these pasta straws in ...
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Are there vaccine ingredients which may not be disclosed ("hidden", "trade secret", or similar)?
I sometimes encounter people claiming that there are ingredients in vaccines that can be kept secret by the manufacturer. I would be surprised to hear this, because the manufacturers have to conduct ...
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Did the "Windows Web Browser Choice Screen" enforced by the EU make a difference?
In response to a EU anti-trust ruling, European Android users will soon be presented with a browser choice screen.
Those of us who are old enough will remember that the same thing happened on Windows ...
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Do EU countries have the right to close their airspace to a particular plane model?
According to this article in "el país" España delega en la UE la paralización del nuevo modelo 737 de Boeing, the Spanish government claims that
El Gobierno señala que no tiene competencias para ...
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Is large Muslim immigration within an European country a cause for higher sexual violence in that particular country?
An article in FrontPage Magazine argues that:
the more open a European country is to Muslim mass migration, the more
dangerous it is to women.
It provides various examples of European countries ...
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Does the Sargentini Report contain 37 factual errors? [closed]
On Tuesday, September 11, 2018, Viktor Orbán stated that the Sargentini report
includes thirty-seven major factual errors
Does it?
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Will taxing EU-made cars at 25% invert the US-EU trade deficit? [closed]
Trump claimed at a rally in West Virginia yesterday that taxing European Union cars at 25% would take the 151bn dollars trade deficit (with the EU) and turn it on its head, i.e. into a US surplus of ...
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Are there millions of cases of girls raped by Muslim men in Europe which resulted in only 222 convictions?
Recently I saw a youtube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLT9JOE64WQ) where the first minute of the video seems to show a British man talking in Parliament where he says that since 2005 there ...
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Drop in IQ due to immigration?
An alt-right web site, "Red Ice" (apparently belonging to Henrik Palmgren), proposes that there's a nearly worldwide decrease in IQ due to immigration. The Red Ice piece apparently originated from unz....
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